Who we are:

        A up and coming Boston-based travel writing and photo journal with a goal of hitting bookshelves by Spring 2003.

What we want:

        Travel writing pieces, non-fiction personal essay style but we're pretty flexible on everything except for the fiction part. The writing needs to be strictly true events, although the way you choose to relate is up to you... be creative! Pieces don't really have any minimum or maximum length but keep in mind that this is going to be a text journal with limited pages and we're not going to publish any novellas. We're also looking for cool photographs, single photo's recommended (photo essays are less desired), and black and white is required. Obviously the photos need to be travel-related.

What we don't want:

        Day by day accounts of what drinks you sipped on the veranda, destination pitches focusing on the appeal of the Virgin Islands, or anything having the least bit to do with cruises (unless you're really amazing... and if you can write something that we publish about cruises, then you're really amazing).

Mission statement:

        Some literary Goliath once said that there were only two kinds of stories: a journey, and a stranger comes to town. While your fiery Joyce critic may blast this as a overgeneralized attempt to broadly dichotemize writing, it remains that these two forms of narrative are both firmly encompassed by one particular type of writing we call travel writing. Always a journey of some sort, in travel writing it is the writer who is the stranger in a new and exciting land, and the story - told well - can be a great one.

        That's what we want here. Great stories, that is. I don't care where you've been, whom you met along the way, or even what you did to pass the time on your little expedition, as long as you can relate it in an interesting and hopefully entertaining way. There are more than six billion people in this world, but few enough of them travel, and even fewer than that take the time (or possess the ability) to actually write about it in a way that makes other people want to do it too.

        A sojourn is not a journey. Don't let that throw you off. A sojourn is a break from a journey, a brief respite, a chance to catch your breath. A temporary residence in a far off place in a world not quite so much like one's own. That's what we want our readers to get from this writing: a sojourn away from the shallow glare of mundane reality, a chance to experience, however briefly, a different sort of adventure altogether.

        So submit something, if you've got it. Submit the stories of your travels and try to throw in whatever bits of truth you've picked up along the way. This isn't some e-zine with a overtly-matronesque attitude where everything people earnestly profer gets generously posted in some obscure corner of the internet - we're getting this out on the bookshelves and we want it to be good. That's it, enough said for a mission statement, I hate this inspirational crap anyways. Go ahead and submit already.

-Aaron Ansel, Editor